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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 Politics (Canada) 

Nunavut flips stance on caribou protection again, now supports development ban on calving grounds

Nick Murray, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 at 16:19
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The government of Nunavut has once again flipped its position on resource development on caribou calving grounds. In a submission

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* Featured * Canada Countries Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 3 Politics (Canada) 

Federal government spending $6.6M on caribou conservation in Nunavut

CBC News
Posted: Friday, March 17, 2023 at 09:55
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The federal government is investing $6.6 million over four years to aid the Nunavut government’s research and monitoring of 13 caribou herds

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 Finland General Society Society (Finland) 

Finland’s national parks still drawing crowds after pandemic peaks

Yle News
Posted: Monday, August 1, 2022 at 11:49
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Take a look at what keeps drawing people by the thousands to remote and pristine natural areas across the country.

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Sweden's 'outdoor access rights' have been translated into several languages to encourage immigrants to explore nature. (Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP)
* Featured * Countries Environment Environment (Sweden) Featured • Zone 3 General News Sweden 

Sweden falling behind on eco-goals

Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, April 5, 2021 at 08:01
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Sweden has set 16 targets for the environment in areas like clean water and thriving forests, but the latest check

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* Featured * Environment Environment (Sweden) Featured • Zone 3 General Sweden 

Wolves finding new homes in southern Sweden

Radio Sweden
Posted: Friday, March 19, 2021 at 14:34
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In past months, there have been a number of reported sightings of wolves in southern parts of the country. For

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General RCI 

New foundation to advance Canadian Museum of Nature Arctic projects in 2021

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, December 28, 2020 at 15:00
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A new foundation set up earlier this year will help finance some of the northern projects planned at the Canadian

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

New national park proposed in Finnish Lapland

Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 at 10:43
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The environment ministry has proposed areas in Lapland and Kanta-Häme to become Finland’s next national parks. The Ministry of the

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General RCI 

Canada announces $1.43 million for Inuit protected and conserved area on Hudson Bay island chain

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 16:35 — Last Updated: Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 16:46
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The Canadian government announced on Thursday that they’ll invest $1.43 million in the creation of an Indigenous Protected and Conserved

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Finland is considering restrictions on things like lakeside cottage construction in an effort to protect the endangered saimaa seal. (iStock)
Environment Environment (Finland) Finland 

Saimaa seal population believed to have grown in Finland

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 10:50
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Mild weather and melting ice cover disrupted the spring count, but more pups may have been born than the year

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A new feeding program is contributing to an increased arctic fox population in Sweden. (iStock)
Environment Environment (Sweden) RCI Sweden 

Sweden not doing enough to protect biodiversity, new report shows

Radio Sweden
Posted: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 at 09:24 — Last Updated: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 at 16:16
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The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency has published a report with suggestions on how the government can step up its efforts to

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A eurasian elk in a forest in Sweden. (iStock)
Environment Environment (Sweden) Sweden 

European elk calves struggling in warmer spring months

Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 at 13:56 — Last Updated: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 at 13:58
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Warmer and drier spring months in Sweden are making life a struggle for the country’s population of European elk calves,

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Environment (Norway) Norway 

2020 shaping up to have second lowest Arctic sea ice extent on record

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, September 21, 2020 at 15:09
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This season’s sea-ice extent is soon reaching minimum, with a specially sharp decline north of Svalbard and Russia’s Arctic archipelagos.

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Sweden's red-green coalition government has no position on climate change yet, ahead of a major EU summit.(iStock)
Environment General Politics (Sweden) Sweden 

Ten billion kroner for Sweden’s upcoming climate budget

Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, September 14, 2020 at 14:43
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Almost ten billion kronor in the upcoming autumn budget will go to measures that help cut climate emissions in industry and

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General RCI 

Feds invests $3.2 million in Indigenous-managed watershed program in northern Canada

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, August 28, 2020 at 09:10
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The Canadian government will invest $3.2 million in the Seal River Watershed Indigenous Protected Area in the Canadian province of

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Environment RCI 

Why the pandemic’s pause on travel could be a defining moment for rethinking Antarctic tourism

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, August 24, 2020 at 08:34 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 10:38
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The current pause on international travel could be an important moment for the international community to rethink the future development

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The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and is composed of three parts: the Monarch, the Senate, and the House of Commons. Photo: La Presse canadienne / Adrian Wyld

Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy

In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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